TITLE:
Atopic City: Consumption and Death in Urban Life
AUTHORS:
Rogerio Proenca Leite
KEYWORDS:
Consumerism, Urban Life, Gentrification, Smart City
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.4 No.3,
August
22,
2016
ABSTRACT: This article explores the contemporary dimensions of consumer practices in urban
life, specifically in their interrelations with gentrification processes and the development
of smart cities. Based on the exploratory concept of Hyperflow positive Ambients,
the article looks to comprehend the resonances of the transformation of cities in
extended spaces of Consumer Society and the metamorphosis of being into valuebeing.
It argues that excessive consumption and the hyperneurotic flow of accelerated
capital income is a fatal form of denying the finitude of being and the possibility of
death, which connects contemporary corporate urbanism to the consummation of
the city and urban life.